Legging.



C. T. DAHLIN.

LEGGING.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, I916- Patented 0%; 9,1917.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL T. DAHLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockholm, in the county of Pepin and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leggings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in leggings, especially adapted for threshermen, when stacking or threshing barley, to prevent barley beards from getting next to the skin of the wearer.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indi cate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the invention applied to a wearer;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the legging; and

Figs. 3 and A are fragmentary perspective views illustrating the parts shown in Fig. 1 at different angles.

The body 1 of the legging is of tubular form, except at its bottom, where it is expanded to extend forward over the shoe or boot 2 of the wearer. A pair of straps 3 are sewed or otherwise rigidly secured to one side of the legging, at the bottom thereof, arranged to be extended under the shoe 2, one at the instep and one at the ball of the foot. The free ends of the straps 3 are adjustably secured to the opposite side of the legging 1 by buckles A sewed or otherwise rigidly secured thereon. A tie strap 5 connects the straps 3 at a point along the sole of the shoe. (See Fig.

The above described means for securing the bottom of the legging securely around the foot of the wearer has been made the subject matter of a co-pending divisional application of the same title, filed January the 10, 1917, under S. N. 141,567 wherein the same is fully described and broadly claimed.

Specification of Letters Patent. 2 P te ted (3 1 .9, 1917, Application filed'June 3,1916. ser amo;1o1',494. 7

The top of the legging is secured to one of the garments of the wearer, as shown, a pair of overalls 6, by a pair of safety pins 7 secured, one to each side of the legging, by elastic straps 8. The top of the legging is circumferentially adjusted around the leg 9 of the wearer, by folding the top portion of the legging upon itself and securing the same together by a buckle 10 to form a plait 11. A circumferentially extended reinforcing strap 11 is sewed onto the legging where the plait 11 is formed. The buckle 10 is secured to the legging by a strap 12 to prevent the same from being lost.

The body of the legging is made from a soft flexible material, such as chambray, and the straps 3, 5 and 12 are preferably made of a coarse relatively heavier material, such as canvas. Obviously, by means of the straps 3 and buckles A, the lower marginal edge portion of the legging may be tightly drawn into close engagement with the shoe 2, at all points, and by means of the buckle 10, the top of the legging may be tightly adjusted around the leg of the wearer. By this means of adjustment, there are no creases or wrinkles in the legging, through which barley beards or other articles can work.

By making the body of the legging of relatively soft material, it is an easy matter to insert the same through the buckle 1 0 in forming the plait 11 and does not make the wearer any warmer by the use of the same.

The straps 8 prevent the legging from working down, but at the same time, have sulficient flexibility to make the legging comfortable to the wearer. The arrangement of the straps 3, under the foot of the wearer, and the connection between the two straps is such as to prevent the straps 3 from working, either forward or backward, in respect to the shoe 2.

The above described invention, while extremely simple, and of small cost to manufacture, has, in actual usage, proven highly efficient for the purposes had in view. Any light material having suflicient body to keep out the barley beards can be used in the manufacture of the legging.

What I claim is 1. A legging having a flexible body, a reinforcing strap secured to the top of the legging and adapted to be folded upon itself to form a plait, and a buckle constructed and arranged to have the folded strap passed the pluit and a flexible connection securing through it for holdingthe plait. V the buckle to the legging. 1)

2. A legging having it flexible body, a re- In testimony whereof I affix my signature inforcing strap secured to the top of the legin presence of two Witnesses.

ging circuinferentially thereof and adapted CARL T. DAHLIN.

to be folded upon itself to form a lait, 2L Witnesses:

buckle constructed and arranged to have the J AMZES E. PHILLIPS,

folded strap passed through it for holding FRID. C. LANGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

